CURRENT & CHOICE

The King and I. A lavish and bouncy musical version in CinemaScope 55 and De Luxe color of the Rodgers and Hammerstein Broadway hit. expertly played by Yul Brynner and Deborah Kerr (TIME, July 16).

Moby Dick. Captain Ahab superbly harrows the oceans in his search for the great white whale; with Gregory Peck, Richard Basehart, Leo Genn. Orson Welles (TIME, July 9).

The Killing. Only cops and robbers, but the skulduggery is skillfully controlled by Director Stanley Kubrick (TIME, June 4).

The Swan. Grace Kelly in a royal courtship gets a witty assist from Actor Alec Guinness and Playwright Ferenc Molnar (TIME, April 23).

The Bold and the Brave. A war film with ideas that hit as hard as bullets; with Wendell Corey, Don Taylor, Mickey Rooney (TIME, April 16).

Forbidden Planet. Some fascinating gadgets and a robot butler make life in outer space seem even better than in split-level suburbia. (TIME, April 9).

Richard III. Dirty work at the Tower of London as reported by the propagandist pen of William Shakespeare and chillingly played by Sir Laurence Olivier (TIME, March 12).

The Ladykillers. Master Criminal Alec Guinness, stumbling over the naivete of sweet old Katie Johnson, drops the picture and the loot (TIME, March 12).

Picnic. William Holden hits a small Kansas town like a virile cyclone with devastating effects on Rosalind Russell, Kim Novak and Susan Strasberg (TIME, Feb. 27).

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